Bontius Jacob (4 results)
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Add to basketBabenausen, Buchdruckereiu Jos. Kreutzer & Co., 1937, 8°, (2), 23, (1) pp., orig. Broschur; St.a.Tit. Aus dem dem medizingeschichtlichen Seminar der Universität München. Vorstad : Privatdozent Dr. med. et phi. M. Müller. "Der Verfasser wurde als Sohn des Landwirts Mathias Loracher und seiner Ehefrau Amalie, geb. Heinzelmann, am…16.II.1910 zu Eppishausen in Schwaben geboren." Lebenslauf.
More imagesPublished by Lodewijck and Daniel Elzevir, Amsterdam, 1658
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. First. "Second edition" (but first thus, largely revised). Amsterdam: Lodewijck and Daniel Elzevir, 1658. Folio in 6s (8 3/8" x 13 9/16", 214mm x 344mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved title page and 530 woodcuts integral with the text. Bound in contemporary calf (re-backed) with a…blind roll border and corner ornaments. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Author and title ("PISONIS/ HISTORIA/ NATURALIS") gilt to red sheepskin in the second panel. Date gilt to tail. All edges of the text-block mottled red. Re-backed, with the end-papers renewed. Gently scuffed, with some craquelure to the bottom edge of the rear board, and a crescent of damp at the spine-edge. Tanned generally with scattered foxing. Title-leaf reinserted and strengthened at the fore. Crude repairs to the index leaf (3T6), not affecting the text. Linnaean binomials inked beside numerous botanical woodcuts. Collated complete against Landwehr. Soon after receiving his medical degree from Caen in 1633, Willem Piso (Pies; 1611-1678) was offered a position in the Dutch West India Company (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie, or GWC) as a physician to the governor of Dutch Brazil, Prince Johann Maurits of Orange-Nassau. Piso left for Brazil alongside the German naturalist and astronomer Georg Marcgraf (Marggraf, Marcgrave; 1610-1644), with whom he authored his first text on the flora and fauna of Brazil, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (see our first edition). Marcgraf died of a fever during an exploration in Guinea prior to its release, but Piso went forward with their collaboration, publishing the work in 1648. Ten years later, Piso saw the work to press. The text was advertised as a revised and expanded edition of the Historia, but Sabin argues differently, noting that "a number of the woodcuts in this work are reproduced from [Historia, therefore,] this is sometimes said to be a second edition. It is in fact a different work, as a comparison of its contents will prove." Although this volume retained Marcgraf's contributions, Piso's editorial choices -- marked by transcription errors and substantial omissions -- drew criticism, notably from Carolus Linnaeus, who had relied on Historia for his own classification work in the years after its release. The compilation additionally includes the posthumous work of Jacob Bontius (1592-1631), a Dutch physician who served in the Indonesian archipelago. His detailed observations on the dysentery epidemic and the practices of local physicians provided valuable insights into tropical diseases and their treatments. Despite the editorial controversy, De Indiae Utriusque re naturali et medica made a lasting impact by documenting indigenous botanical knowledge holistically. It builds upon one of the earliest surveys of the region and remains a cornerstone of Dutch naturalism. The present volume was lot 112 at Sotheby's "Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern" sale in London (12 December 2023). It previously resided in the library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft. Jay Haft (1935-2022) was a corporate lawyer, a dedicated philanthropist, and an avid collector. Hunt 280; Landwehr, VOC 828; Sabin 63031. Catalogued by GR Murdock.
More imagesPublished by Cornelius Boutestein, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], 1718
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to (small). New edition, i.e. three works in one volume. Period binding, half parchment over paper boards. [xxvi], 325, [47] index, [ii], 44, [4] index, [109], [2] index. Engraved and rubricated title page. [6] copper engraved plates. Remains of bookplate inside front cover. Covers general…ly worn. Hinges cracked. Internally very good, with some minor sporadic foxing and a few spots of pencil marginalia.
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Add to basketLugduni Batavorum, apud Gerardum Potvliet, 1745, 4°, 11 Bl., 325, (45) pp., (2), pp.73-258, (2), 8 Kupferstichtafeln, Kalbsledereinband der Zeit mit reichlicher Rückenvergoldung; Gelenke angeborchen, aber fest, ein feines Exemplar. Alpini (1553-1617) was an Italian physician and botanist who graduated from Padua and traveled thr…ough Greece, Crete, and Egypt from 1580 to 1583.First printed in 1591, this work on Egyptian medicine gives the first European recognition of the medicinal value of coffee. The second work by Jacob de Bondt is an important work on diseases of the East Indies. It includes the first modern descriptions of cholera, tropical dysentery, yaws, and beri-beri.
